Growing Vegetables features clear, beginner-friendly guides on how to grow popular crops in the UK. Learn when to plant, how to care for vegetables through the season, and how to improve yields in gardens and allotments.
When I started gardening in Oxfordshire over twenty years ago, my first proper vegetables were not in a bed at all. They were in a row of cheap plastic pots along a sunny bit of patio, because that was all the space I had. I made nearly every container mistake going that first year, but … Read more
Share this Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp X Email Easy vegetables to grow in the UK are the forgiving, fast, reliable ones that crop well even when you get things a bit wrong: lettuce, radishes, potatoes, courgettes, beetroot, peas, spring onions, and spinach. These are the crops I always point beginners towards, because they germinate readily, cope … Read more
Share this Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp X Email When to plant vegetables in the UK follows the seasons more than any fixed calendar, but the short version is this: sow hardy crops from March, wait until after the last frost in late May for tender ones, and keep sowing something almost every month from spring to … Read more